MMMMMMM and others US foreign policy defenders - ethics?

[Arnfinn Madsen]

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Your first two links are from 2002 and show that foreign governments turned over suspected terrorists to the US. Your third link is from Jan. 31, 2005. We've alredy established in this thread that your original post claiming the US was holding innocent people at Guantanamo Bay and not releasing them is completely false. Everyone at Guantanamo Bay undergoes a review process to determine his status as an enemy combatant. Those found to be non-enemy combatants are released. Is there another point you are trying to make?

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My point was to show that many of the prisoners have not been involved in fighting with US troops. You claimed otherwise and repeated it.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

This goes to the whole nature of Guantanamo. Prisoners handed over by regimes known for dubious arrests of political opponents makes the likelyhood that the prisoner is victim to political persecution more likely than if he was caught holding a gun against US troops

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This goes to the whole nature of Guantanamo. Prisoners handed over by regimes known for dubious arrests of political opponents makes the likelyhood that the prisoner is victim to political persecution more likely than if he was caught holding a gun against US troops

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My problem with your statements is that you keep saying that "many" and "a lot" of innocent people are being kept at Guantanamo Bay. The links you provided show this to be untrue. The International Committee of the Red Cross has access to the detainees. The US has a process in place to determine who is and is not an enemy combatant. Those deemed to be non-enemy combatants are either sent home or turned over to their home countries' government. What more do you expect of the US?

[Arnfinn Madsen]

This discussion is becoming a mess and isn't going anywhere. In 2009 this matter will probably be solved anyway.

Agreed.